I have been working on microsoft windows for the past 5 years. Now as i wish to learn web designing and programming, i wish to switch over to linux. But i have never operated or installed linux before, nothing more than live CD's. I am completely fed up of windows bugs and lags, so i decided to completely migrate to linux. So, any suggestions... I know that most of the linux begginers end up with lost partitions during their first install. Though i will be taking extra care of it, any good tutorial will do some extra help. What abt the applications?? As a general user, should i be getting all the replacements ?? Any software on windows which i have to say good bye ?? I am now learning some serious programming, starting with php. I hope that eclipse have a full support for linux..... right na ?? I am really interested in graphic designing and have just started learning photoshop. I dont want to leave that in between. What to do abt that ?? Beside all this, anything else i should know??
I use Linux (Ubuntu/Easy Peasy) on my EeePC, and I love it. But... I need Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator and Dreamweaver for work, there's no way around it, and I can't see the point in using Wine to run 'em all on Linux. As soon as Adobe start releasing Linux applications, Windows is a dead duck for me. But until then, I'll be using XP on my desktop PC.
Upgrading to Linux? I think title should be "Migrating to Windows". Some ideas, initially don't remove windows complete, install linux side by side. I think 1st choice should be ubuntu which is quite user friendly. they also give you free cd, if you can't download. Also, you have to be sure no windows program will work in Linux. Linux has different structure architecture and installation methodology (you can install and work some windows application in linux through wine, but it is not proper Linux), as you are looking for web programing, then you can take classes for that, it will help you to catch up some confidence). Most windows people can't hanld CLI (Command line Interface, in linux its called shell), so be prepared for it. There are many migration guides are available on the internet.. google it.. Best of luck
There is no Linux alternative for InDesign (*.indd). If I was to run Linux + Wine + InDesign on my main desktop, how would I be better off? I can totally see the advantages of using Linux for browsing/emailing/etc. But I still can't see the advantages of jumping through so many hoops to switch my main work desktop over. I want to believe.
I mentioned that i am fed up of slow windows and i think linux is way better than it in terms of speed and reliability, thats why i used that title. I was not asking for web design tutorials, i just wanna know that if there will be some change in the eclipse with the change in OS. I think it would be better that i should start learning linux ans shell that would give me even more confidence..... I have now decided to keep vista in dual boot because of photoshop and my brother who use computer only to play games. I have 2 HDD's in my system and i dont want that choose OS menu, so i am going to install linux while other one plugged off. I will be switching between the windows by changing the boot device priorities. So can anyone see my ext partition while logged into vista ?? Is this arrangement going to cause any problem ?? HD space is not an issue and i have many partitions. Just want to make one linux partition.
you can show ntfs partition or not, you can show it by mount it in gnu/linux. Some gnu/linux distro can easily do that for you.
I think Ubuntu should be ur first step as a new Linux user. U can later move onto Suse/Fedore. BEsides, Ubuntu has a hoard of support on the internet- thus ensuring u never fall short of help/ideas... Hope it helped TC
I will be installing ultimate edition ubuntu.... hope that will be fine... Is there a great difference for beginners in various distros ??? I am new to linux but not to computers....
Games and multimedia software (audio and video editing, audio composing, etc) have good open source alternatives but usually not as good as windows software (not yet, but I think it will be, soon). As far as :I know, eclipse has full support for Linux. About Photoshop, theres a open source alternative called The Gimp. It stilldoesnt' have as many funcions as Photoshop but it'ts getting there. A good alternative if you have a powerful PC is running a VMware virtual machine inside Linux and installing Windows on it. So when you need to use a windows application you don't have to reboot your PC, just power on your virtual machine and you have "Windows in a window" inside Linux.
BTW I would go with Fedora and KDE interface instead of Ubuntu. But Ubuntu is also very good, I specially like the meaning of the name.
Ubuntu is great for a newbie. And there's very good support for it. That's a good awy to go. ANd yeah there are quite a few open source options for software so you don't have to worry. Unless you're doing print work. But for the web. most formats are available in linux